BINA AI: Blind-friendly Intelligent Navigation Assistant

A browser extension-based assistive technology that helps blind users navigate the web through speech recognition, text-to-speech, and smart AI guidance.

Requirements

• Node.js
• Mistral account
• pnpm (optional)

Mistral Setup

You must have a Mistral account to use this project. Thanks to Mistral team for giving generous free

Agent

• Log in or create a new Mistral account
• Navigate to La Plateforme - Agents
• Create a new agent
• Copy the prompt inside ./api/prompt.md and paste to instructions (system prompt)
• You can give it a name and freely change the model and randomness (temperature)
• Click Deploy once you're done
• Click on Agent ID to copy your agent ID

API Key

• Navigate to La Plateforme - API Keys
• Create new key
• Give it a name
• Copy key and keep it safe!

Project Setup

• Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/sglkc/bina-ai.git
   cd bina-ai

• Install dependencies

pnpm install

• Setup environment variables, add Mistral API key and agent ID

cp ./api/.env.example ./api/.env

• Run api and extension in development mode

pnpm -r dev

LICENSE

This project is licensed under the AGPL-3.0 License. See the LICENSE file for details.